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And you have also appointed prophets to proclaim concerning you at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not restrained my lips, O LORD, you know.
Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Behold, this have I found, says the preacher, adding one thing to another, to find out the reason:
The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid you.
And spared not the ancient world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;